The Highlander Principle

I have learned that things mean different things to different people. I don’t think many organisations have fully adopted private cloud capabilities (in fact some are nowhere close). (and there is probably no correct answer here – highly subjective).

So what should a private cloud offer – my 2 pennies:

1. To virtualise the existing estate and [...]

Challenge
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Software as a Service (SaaS)

Provisioning
Need to adapt in-house processes to 3rdparty providers tools.Once provisioned resources can/should be managed by internal tools.
Need to adapt in-house applications/packages to deploy on a 3rd party managed platform
Need to manage entitlement of users within the 3rd party application

Monitoring
Need performance / SLA monitoring [...]

Role
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Software as a Service (SaaS)

CEO
Why did we invest in our own datacentre capacity? What’s the roadmap?
Why do we not go direct to SaaS?
Does this improve our business agility? Can we change business processes more quickly?

CFO
How do we forecast the costs if they are variable?
Does this impact our [...]